See a Kotex ad advertising a Marjorie May
booklet.
See many more similar booklets.
See ads for menarche-education booklets:
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1932),
Tampax tampons (1970, with Susan Dey), Personal
Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and German o.b.
tampons (lower ad, 1981)
And read Lynn Peril's series about these
and similar booklets!
Read the full text of the 1935 Canadian edition
of Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, probably identical to the American edition.
More ads for teens (see also introductory
page for teenage advertising): Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and Quest napkin powder, 1948, U.S.A.),
Are you in the know? (Kotex
napkins and belts, 1949, U.S.A.)Are you in
the know? (Kotex napkins, 1953, U.S.A.),
Are you in the know? (Kotex
napkins and belts, 1964, U.S.A.), Freedom
(1990, Germany), Kotex (1992, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Saba (1975, Denmark)
See early tampons and a list of tampon on this site - at least the ones I've cataloged.
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Preparing for Womanhood, menstruation & puberty booklet
by Kotex, 1920s, sample pages
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"Nervous strain" and menstruation are touchy subjects, even
today. Some female visitors to MUM say that this is a figment of the male
mind - women don't get it - while others suffer terribly.
The issue is also part of the medicalization of menstruation, probably
begun in the last century, and is difficult to settle.
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By the kind permission of the Curator of Health
and Medicine at the Powerhouse
Museum, Sydney, Australia, I am able to show you part of this Australian
edition in the collection of the Powerhouse Museum. (Please direct any further
enquiries
to Megan Hicks at meganh@phm.gov.au)
© 1999 Harry Finley. It is illegal to reproduce
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